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Interesting Steam Inventory update. If you use the drop down tab in the Steam part of the tab, it has a new sorting method. "Coupons." Wonder what that'll end up being. Guessing it'll be the equal of sending Steam Wallet funds to each other (i.e. I buy a 5 dollar coupon and trade it for your Half Life 2) sort of thing.

How do I find these things you speak of?

Community, profile, my inventory, steam. There's a dropdown menu that has gifts selected, coupons is there. I can't see any way to get a coupon, so they mustn't have implemented it yet.

Edit: Also so... Cave Story+ is literally just paying $10 for the free game Cave Story?

The + indicates new, redone hi-res graphics. Still pixel art, but it scales up nicely to 1080p. You know, for the modern, sophisticated gamer.

Hunh. I mean. Maybe, if... no, no probably not. I guess if it goes on sale? I don't know that the graphics used to be bad at all?

It really does look so much better. And I've always felt guilty about such a great game being free. If @Chocobolicious hadn't been a classy lady-gent and gifted it to me, I would have undoubtedly bought it, on the off chance that Gaben doesn't award me my top 10 wish list items.

I bought Orcs Must Die on the Thanksgiving sale. Tempted to buy the DLC now, but I beat the game and have shelved it and moved on. I'm making progress on my game bank and don't want to get pulled back in.

Edit: Also so... Cave Story+ is literally just paying $10 for the free game Cave Story?

The + indicates new, redone hi-res graphics. Still pixel art, but it scales up nicely to 1080p. You know, for the modern, sophisticated gamer.

Hunh. I mean. Maybe, if... no, no probably not. I guess if it goes on sale? I don't know that the graphics used to be bad at all?

It really does look so much better. And I've always felt guilty about such a great game being free. If @Chocobolicious hadn't been a classy lady-gent and gifted it to me, I would have undoubtedly bought it, on the off chance that Gaben doesn't award me my top 10 wish list items.

Interesting Steam Inventory update. If you use the drop down tab in the Steam part of the tab, it has a new sorting method. "Coupons." Wonder what that'll end up being. Guessing it'll be the equal of sending Steam Wallet funds to each other (i.e. I buy a 5 dollar coupon and trade it for your Half Life 2) sort of thing.

How do I find these things you speak of?

Community, profile, my inventory, steam. There's a dropdown menu that has gifts selected, coupons is there. I can't see any way to get a coupon, so they mustn't have implemented it yet.

My friend has never expressed any interest in starcraft 2, so I'm not sure if thats the game for him. A mutual friend plays it pretty competitively so there have been plenty of times for him to try it, but he hasnt wanted to. As far as AI War, I stay 10 yards away from any RTS so I can only judge based off videos..But it doesnt look like it is basebuilding?

My friend does the following in RTSs: Beats the campaign. Then he will set up random games against NPCs set on easier difficulties. He will spend hours building up his base and smothering the other sides. Then he will wipe them out in seconds. Then he will click "rematch".

A big part of AI War is building up massive defenses at strategic planets. There is a game mode in the latest expansion, Light of the Spire, which is purely defensive. You select how many and which planets you want to defend, build up defenses and then the AI cuts loose. As far as basebuilding goes, that's in there too. There is an insane wealth of static defenses for planets.

True, the game isn't your standard RTS, and it has some pretty interesting and unique mechanics. It doesn't really play much like a traditional RTS where you steamroll your way through the game. You have to fight an asymmetrical guerilla war. When you do attack though, you will usually be doing so with overwhelming forces or specially designed fleets for the task at hand. And every system is a new and different tactical and strategic nut to crack, due to the game's procedural generation there is a ton of emergent interactions. That said, it draws from some of the best traditional RTS games for inspiration, the economic model is almost straight out of Total Annihilation for example. The massive amount of units to play with is another nod towards Total Annihilation.

It'll probably get a daily deal during the Christmas sale, and will most likely be cheap enough to take a gamble on. Or not. You know your pal better than I do, after all. I just love the damn game and get enthusiastic about it. Even though I haven't played lately. Because when I play it, that's all I tend to do.

When will Steam allow me to buy multiple copies of the same game to gift in a single transaction? Why does Steam make my laziness compete against my classiness?

This is the reason my debit card was frozen 4 times during the autumn sale. Banks apparently get suspicious about 40 $2 - $15 transactions occuring within minutes of one another.

Probably a good reason to dump funds into the Steam Wallet. I've started doing that when I can afford to do some gifting after trying to gift out multiple copies of DX during the summer sale and having a block put on my payment info on Steam.

Steam Wallet is probably your best bet. I set myself a personal limit, put that into the Steam Wallet before sales, and never go over it. It helps you when you want to Serve the Newell, but you also want to eat and pay rent.

When will Steam allow me to buy multiple copies of the same game to gift in a single transaction? Why does Steam make my laziness compete against my classiness?

This is the reason my debit card was frozen 4 times during the autumn sale. Banks apparently get suspicious about 40 $2 - $15 transactions occuring within minutes of one another.

Probably a good reason to dump funds into the Steam Wallet. I've started doing that when I can afford to do some gifting after trying to gift out multiple copies of DX during the summer sale and having a block put on my payment info on Steam.

Wait. Okay, so I see the option to add moneys to my Wallet. Obviously that's just one CC transaction. You then have the option to use your Wallet funds to buy stuffs? And, if you end up with, say, $2.50 and want to buy a $5 game, can you apply $2.50 to the single transaction from both your Wallet and CC? If so, the only downside I can see is that I'd be aware of how much I spent...

When will Steam allow me to buy multiple copies of the same game to gift in a single transaction? Why does Steam make my laziness compete against my classiness?

This is the reason my debit card was frozen 4 times during the autumn sale. Banks apparently get suspicious about 40 $2 - $15 transactions occuring within minutes of one another.

Probably a good reason to dump funds into the Steam Wallet. I've started doing that when I can afford to do some gifting after trying to gift out multiple copies of DX during the summer sale and having a block put on my payment info on Steam.

Wait. Okay, so I see the option to add moneys to my Wallet. Obviously that's just one CC transaction. You then have the option to use your Wallet funds to buy stuffs? And, if you end up with, say, $2.50 and want to buy a $5 game, can you apply $2.50 to the single transaction from both your Wallet and CC? If so, the only downside I can see is that I'd be aware of how much I spent...

Question: does Steam drain your wallet first when you make purchases or is it separate?

You can choose a payment option, so even if you have funds in your wallet you could still put the whole order on a credit card or PayPal account and not use the funds in your Steam Wallet. Though I don't know why you would want to do that.

Another stupid question: Is there a way to just see my friend's wanted stuffs? I can't go to Community > Friends > Wishlist Items, though I can check individual friends from there. Is there a way to see their cumulative wishlist? I will once again explain my extreme laziness; I realize it may only take 1 minute to search and find this info.

Another stupid question: Is there a way to just see my friend's wanted stuffs? I can't go to Community > Friends > Wishlist Items, though I can check individual friends from there. Is there a way to see their cumulative wishlist? I will once again explain my extreme laziness; I realize it may only take 1 minute to search and find this info.

Another stupid question: Is there a way to just see my friend's wanted stuffs? I can't go to Community > Friends > Wishlist Items, though I can check individual friends from there. Is there a way to see their cumulative wishlist? I will once again explain my extreme laziness; I realize it may only take 1 minute to search and find this info.